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Low-energy electron scattering by deoxyribose and related molecules

J. Chem. Phys. 125, 074302 (2006); doi:10.1063/1.2263824

Published 17 August 2006

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Carl Winstead and Vincent McKoy
A. A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
We apply first-principles computational methods to study elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by 2-deoxyribose and 2-deoxyribose monophosphate, which are of interest as components of the DNA backbone, and to tetrahydrofuran (THF), which has been studied as a deoxyribose analog. To investigate the dependence of the scattering process on the molecular conformation, we examine Cs and C2 conformers of THF as well as the planar C2v geometry imposed in earlier calculations. There is little difference between the elastic cross sections determined at the nonplanar geometries, but there are noticeable differences between those results and the cross sections computed using the planar ring. By comparing results for tetrahydrofuran obtained with and without inclusion of polarization effects, we obtain energy shifts that are applied to the computed resonance positions for deoxyribose and deoxyribose monophosphate. ©2006 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 8 June 2006; accepted 10 July 2006; published 17 August 2006
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PACS
  • 34.80.Bm
    Elastic scattering of electrons by atoms and molecules
  • 36.20.Ey
    Macromolecular conformation (statistics and dynamics)
  • 31.15.Ar
    Ab initio calculations (atoms and molecules)
  • YEAR: 2006

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